One Man's thoughts, rants, and mumblings on family, life, and baseball.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Just Another Random Tuesday

Tonight was Ciera's first softball game, and here she is breaking out of the box on her single in her first trip to the plate. She started off playing CF, the moved to LF, and for the night went 1 for 2, with the out coming on a line drive to second.

They made me the 3rd base coach for some weird reason, and in a matter of minutes I was drunk with power. Like my good friend Nancy from SG suggested, I suddenly morphed into The Human Windmill Dale Sveum and was sending runners with reckless abandon. Final tally? 2 runners thrown out at home and one at third when I had her running on an infield single!

From there, I went to Rakes' T-Ball practice, where he continued to exhibit symptoms of being the next Manny. Dialed in during batting practice, he laced all but two pitches to the outfield, has a pretty good arm for someone 2 ft tall, yet could care less about his glove work. As long as he doesn't stand at home plate and admire his shot into the middle infield or start growing dreadlocks, I think we'll be OK.

I got home with Rakes around 8:10, turn on the game, and the Sox are winning 3-0, with Wake in the groove. 8 innings, 2 hits, 0 runs, 0 walks, and 6 K's, with back to back HR's from Papi and Manny, the final score ended up 5-0.

If you're keeping score at home, that's 2 nights in a row The Large Father has gone yard, and Manny is now at career HR 497.